Churchill and the quest for greatness
Throughout his career, Britain’s wartime prime minister studied how other leaders – Roosevelt, Attlee, Stalin and Gandhi – exercised power.
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David Reynolds
David Reynolds is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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Between toughness and talking: 75 years since Yalta
At the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, as the Red Army was taking control of eastern Europe, Churchill, Roosevelt…
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A union built on blood
The first of a new series on the constitutional moment and the future of the United Kingdom.
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